We were also not deterred by #J20 from organizing in any way. Local asks in Charlottesville were clear and were rooted in the safety concerns of our Black communities based on past events over *decades*.
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I have seen many bad takes on Charlottesville from antifascist and anarchists who weren't here and know nothing about this community or organizing in Appalachia and the south.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
I'm sorry, are you a J20 defendant?
@crimethinc is an anonymous project, but participants are from the South, were in Charlottesville, etc. Surely you agree there would have been more people in Charlottesville if not for many kinds of state repression.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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I'm referring to the insinuation that the presence of J20 defendants *specifically* would have somehow averted James Fields' attack. Which is impossible to conclude.
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The facts are that Fields drove into a crowd of 500 people hours after the rally area was cleared. There's no evidence that suggests his premeditated act would have been different if we were 800 or 1000.
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You said "this crimethinc post on
@IGD_News is offensive to those of us on the ground in Charlottesville." That's offensive, in that you're making assumptions about the authors and speaking for *everyone* on the ground in Charlottesville.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AnarchoAnon @EmilyGorcenski and
If you disagree about a single speculation about a counterfactual, say that. No good can come from creating needless conflicts and asserting yourself as the party with the moral high ground. Be constructive. Thanks.
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I did. In the follow-up tweet. And ny phrasing implies "literally everyone in Charlottesville right now" no more than "men are trash" implies all men. Thanks.
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This may shock you, but it's okay to publicly disagree with some framings. Especially framings that portray Heather, other victims, and local organizers as helpless naifs.
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If that's what you got from the above article, then there is little point in our discussing this. It's irresponsible for you to throw around implications about who was or wasn't in Charlottesville and to misrepresent other commenters as disrespecting them, but you do you.
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Perhaps I'm not communicating clearly. I'm not saying that there were or weren't J20 defendants there. I'm saying this take reads as "heather died because there weren't enough of them"
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